He's doing well over there so far! Nice looking website. The store is up and running. Comments are on topic and interesting for the most part. A little bit of spinning out there by talking about what other commenters know or don't know, which is to be expected I suppose. But overall I'd give it an "A". Maybe I'll just have to register an account and overcome my cowardice. Congratulations Brad!

brad is really getting old. his new site is really boring and lame, and it looks really awful.i find this pretty sad, because brad's trick was to get people into zen and to help them to realize themselves. now the new site is just full of boring comments, old farts discussing intellectually about things that brad used to successfully criticize before. and his latest books? brad's almost 50 and it's getting more obvious year by year. sad indeed... brad's turning more and more into conservative e-sangha type, loving robes and chanting more and more each year. he's starting to remind me of jundo and that's so disgusting...

a good interview with shunryu suzuki, he really has a different view, perhaps some of the bullshit artists on this blog (ed. hcz) can see where they are going wrong by comparison

not flowery, flakey or ornate but a practical discursion of his life yet all most all the commenters here on hcz do nothing put spew forth specious bullshit and totally conceal any aspect of who they are or how they live

what is brad warners appeal? he is not afraid to be himself and write about it, but commenters here take the opposite tack, but being a hermit crab won't save you from the mantisshrimp !

brad may come across as weak but one thing i have learnt about him is he can tolerate levels of criticism that would fell a a platoon of marines and that's not weak !

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rather pathetic really, all the phonies can wank forever on the new blog, but you delete the posts of most substance !

theres only poor health and bankruptcy in that lot brad, you'll never learn!

well, it's the passing of an era i guess, brad is selling out to gain (he thinks), health insurance and an income with stupid wankers who will support him in return for not having their or his feathers ruffled

i'm not against selling out, but if you are going to do it, you might as well get a decent price..............

"And how, monks, does a monk cultivate release by compassion? What is its goal, its excellence, its fruit and its outcome?

"In this, monks, a monk cultivates the enlightenment-factors of mindfulness... equanimity accompanied by compassion... [as above]... he dwells thus, equanimous, mindful, clearly aware or, by passing utterly beyond all perception of objects, by the going-down of perceptions of sensory reactions,[6] by disregarding perceptions of diversity, thinking 'space is infinite,' he attains and dwells in the sphere of infinite space.[7] I declare that the heart's release by compassion has the sphere of infinite space for its excellence. This is the attainment of a wise monk who penetrates to no higher release.

anonymous, there's hundreds of others out there like fred and mark and they will all swarm in and smother a board where they are protected from being called crap artists like the hardcore zen board has become

i don't watch horror movies, mainly because they make me afraid of the dark which is not helpful when spending time outside at night

but that one (as linked in the 4.31pm post above) has always made a big impact on me

it's very hard to understand what happens in the spiritual scene, the endless repetition of cliches like they are doing something and it seems to make more sense in terms of the living dead and zombies

i think the real benefit of vegetarianism is reducing body iron stores and in fact, a combination of not eating so much in the way of high iron foods (i still eat meat!) and blood donation works best rather than the sort of raw foodism that jeffery dahmer does

the reason why university academics don't believe that sir henry neville wrote those plays and poems is this

would a colourless middle class drab (shakespeare) with a propensity to litigate over small sums and no concrete evidence he could write at all have written them compared to a very well educated and read, upper class man with a large minded fabulous personality, super rich in life experience and fluent in languages of texts used as sources for the plays (sir henry neville)

It is a shame what's happened to the formerly great hardcore zen blog. Fred, Ted, Mark, Fred, Ted, Mark, Fred, Ted, Mark, Jinzang, Fred, Ted, Mark, Fred, Ted, Mark.. So on and so on and so on ad infinitum.. Good for Brad.. He no longer has to feel bad about what people really think.

Um.. Let me say it for the free people of the internet. Fuck you Brad and your TOS agreement. You are and always will be a lamer. Once upon a time I thought you could withstand minor assaults to your ego. But I was giving you too much credit. So enjoy your new blog. It reflects the real you perfectly. Artless and inoffensive.

and of course the rest of the compendium has a strong anti-cancer effect, but i suspect you lot prefer to die of cardiovascular and the other metabolic issues that come in partfrom no sun like diabetes etc

a solar elevation (height of the sun above the horizon) of about 67° and stratospheric ozone of 250-275 dobson is really the minimium for good skin D sun.

74° and above is the really good stuff, at that height it may even get enough into the skin blood to kill a few viruses and provide an 'innocualtion' or some dead viruses in the blood so the immune system can see them as some viruses seem to have good stealth, especially with biofilm

i feel the higher angles are better but for instance the hawaiian midsummer sun at its maximum height (84°!) might be a bit much for white skins, however i haven't had much experience with these very high sun angles, maybe short intense tropical sun level exposure is beneficial, maybe not, one has to experiment !

you are looking for gains in mood and health (eg. less inflammation and better joints, better mental flexibility, reduced non- skin cancer risk etc.) and balancing that against increaser skin cancer risk

health is quite relevant to zen because dogen moved to a cool, damp and low sun area to found eihei-ji, he may not have died of TB if he had moved south into more intense sunlight areas, or at least lived another ten or twenty years to give a more mature and worked out zen rather than the mostly nonsense he is known by today !

the way he was togged up as monk and probably was indoors more than most monks wouldn't have helped either !

catherine of sienna is another religious whose entry into the religious life and the very masking effect of sun on the skin of those habits in fact killed her

Someone posted a picture of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso to Brad's Facebook page and Brad then writes, "I don’t even want to get into the implied racism of choosing to illustrate this idea with a photo of a bucktoothed, bespectacled Asian with his head bowed submissively."

I'm thinking that Brad had the racist reaction here. He saw a picture of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and only saw him as a bucktoothed, bespectacled Asian with his head bowed submissively..

an3drew said, "Imo the people he wants to get rid of are mysterion and myself !"

an3drew, Sorry old boy but you are almost as boring as mysterion. Except to yourself of course.

The timing of the changes makes me think that it was more likely Moi..

When I criticized his dishonest eBay practices he immediately deleted my post and changed the format and clamped down on the anonymi. He managed to suffer through all sorts of strange comments until I hit a little too close to home with that one. The eBay comment was actually quite mild and logical but the truth was not acceptable to Brad at that point as he shrunk back from it as if it were a herpes sore. The format changes were coming anyway but by then he'd had enough. Maybe it was the stress of moving to L.A. again and trying to sell his silly guitar for twice it's real value that finally unnerved him.

Either way, he lost what was compelling about himself and his blog. It was a Jump the Shark moment.

i think the most telling thing i ever saw with brad was that video he did with his niece and when he started talking about fame she made pistol shooting signs at him which i assume is the families opinion of what he is doing with zen and is probably correct and if he won't listen to those who care for him then arguement is pretty pointless !

from brad's point of view i think he's been offered a lot of useful, if painful advice he's ignored which says alot for the stupidity of zazen and what is called zen

for myself everything i write is a development of my thinking and hopefully problem solving about life so that i walk away with something and not just a waste of time reinforcing of what i already i think i know !

For me, I think in cliche psychological terms. I think I've got unresolved anger from early childhood situations. Something about Brad's manner of expression often triggers this pent up rage and I vent towards him and his situation. It could be that Brad represents a figure that oppressed me, or it could also be that he represents me, doing something I would be punished for, and in my criticism of him I am taking on the role of my old oppressor.

This is why I post anonymously. It would be very embarassing to have my real name attached to this, and be searchable.

i'm sorta the opposite, i piss my time away helping arseholes who just about always kick me in the face with their renewed strength

basically i think all you can do is see what you are like and try to avoid the pitfalls : o)

man i go in straight line for a million miles and it's very penal but what i find is that if i continue to the very end i get in some place that really gives strong insight and is really very different like the proverbial mountainpeak

Lbasically i think all you can do is see what you are like and try to avoid the pitfalls : o)

Oh that's a really kind and forgiving way of looking at myself... thanks A :)

RE: Brad, lots of people have years of practice, not everyone writes books about it or gets recognition for their effort. Add recognition from an old Japanese teacher to that - pretty rare. Maybe I get jealous of Brad getting recognition while I've gotten none and want it desparately? (Again cliche psychology kicking in here).

yeah, i thought it was good too! it's such a relief to say what one thinks sometimes and not have to conform to the usual crap !

i really think brad doesn't look around even slightly, a couple of hours on the web looking at tolle , some of the advaita teachers like karl renz and jeff foster would tell him the way to go for income and don't ever ever specifically ask for money gratis on a blog

ditch the music too, waste of time

brad what's wrong with you that you have to moderate me who talks sense on your new blog and give the wanking free rein and then they kick you in the teeth when you ask for money?

you were a pretty boy brad with good health , but as we get older that all changes.........

yeah, i like broken yogi's comments as well, theres a maturity there, but still a wrong mindedness, can't let go of the buddhist bullshit as illusion

but if you look at people like dogen and hakuin, they were writers and artists and it's the artistic process of writing that develops (except for fred and some like him who fight tooth, claw and nail against any realisation of insufficiency)

so actually the blog writing and commenting, if you are open to it, will do way more for you thatn the hypnotic nightmare of zazen !

fred as amatter of interest do you meditate?

i am wondering what you do to do screw yourself up, i mean, you don't even slightly seem to have got what its about, in fact the opposite, so what you do is of interest !

Thank god(s) that were are merely the minor flaws in the otherwise harmonious fabric of the universe!

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i wonder if that's the problem with mark, fred, michel and the endless bullshitters on brad's blog, that they are habitual liars and can't tell the difference between bullshit and truth cause they really seem not able to !

they don't understand the costs to themselves and i don't think brad is by any means as upfront as he makes out !

"He could still hear her screaming, high, loud, spine-chilling screams. Hans began to think that if the men raping her knew he could hear them, they would come to kill him, too, so he ran to his car and drove"

talk to them, take them seriously

well, i'm handling that part right

“more than 20 years ago he was working with a patient who had been struggling with her voices. she came in one day and told him that a book she had been reading had helped her because it made her feel that her voices had meaning. the writer was a man named julian jaynes”

the book, “the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind” ...

jayce said: "Brad had outgrown his Blogger blog – with only one page, the layout squished blog posts to the page’s center, while forcing other content to the sides. With the new site, we’ve created multiple pages to house content, improving the layout and typography overall.The new site uses WordPress to allow easy maintenance of Brad’s pre-existing blog, while providing complete flexibility for future growth."

Translation: Brad was tired of having to deal with unmoderated questions about his integrity. It hurt him where he lived.

"Calls for Twitter to clamp down on so-called "trolls" sending abusive hate messages via the social networking site intensified yesterday after a string of high-profile attacks on famous names including the diver Tom Daley. Coronation Street's Shobna Gulati, and the Conservative MP Louise Mensch and Conservative blogger Brad Warner.. Even the father of Daley's internet abuser said the company needed to take action to stop the disturbing practice."

Hotchkiss identified what she called the seven deadly sins of narcissism:

Shamelessness: Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.

Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.

Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.

Envy: A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person's ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.

Entitlement: Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic compliance because they consider themselves special. Failure to comply is considered an attack on their superiority, and the perpetrator is considered an "awkward" or "difficult" person. Defiance of their will is a narcissistic injury that can trigger narcissistic rage.

Exploitation: Can take many forms but always involves the exploitation of others without regard for their feelings or interests. Often the other is in a subservient position where resistance would be difficult or even impossible. Sometimes the subservience is not so much real as assumed.

Bad boundaries: Narcissists do not recognize that they have boundaries and that others are separate and are not extensions of themselves. Others either exist to meet their needs or may as well not exist at all. Those who provide narcissistic supply to the narcissist are treated as if they are part of the narcissist and are expected to live up to those expectations. In the mind of a narcissist there is no boundary between self and other.